We are seeking an experienced Datadog Observability Architect to lead enterprise observability initiatives across infrastructure, applications, cloud, and platform services. The candidate will be responsible for defining observability architecture, establishing monitoring standards, implementing Datadog solutions, driving platform governance, and enabling AI-driven operational insights. The role requires strong consulting, architecture, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead large-scale observability transformation programs.
Key Responsibilities
Define and own enterprise observability architecture, standards, and governance.
Lead monitoring and observability assessments to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
Design and implement scalable Datadog monitoring solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases, middleware, networks, storage, backup, cloud, and collaboration platforms.
Develop monitoring, alerting, logging, dashboarding, and reporting frameworks.
Architect and implement Datadog capabilities including Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, Logs, Synthetic Monitoring, RUM, NPM, DBM, and Distributed Tracing.
Drive observability adoption across hybrid cloud and enterprise platforms.
Integrate observability solutions with ITSM, AIOps, automation, and AI/GenAI platforms.
Develop predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, and operational intelligence use cases.
Optimize monitoring coverage, alert quality, platform performance, and observability costs.
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and best practices to engineering and operations teams.
Experience
10+ years of experience in Enterprise Monitoring and Observability.
6 7+ years of hands-on Datadog implementation and architecture experience.
Experience leading enterprise observability transformation programs.
